Fact of the matter is nobody is forced to sell their players if they don't want to. I don't understand the outcry. Stupid is the one that pays, not the one that demands. I mean, put Barca in their position. A club comes and demands a player in August with a week until the season starts. The player wants to go as well. What should they do? Put a reasonable price on them? Hell no. Bartomeu would be lynched the next morning. Same for their management.
I'm sure the negotiations would be different if we came calling in June.
Sure, it's less likely someone would want to leave Barca for any other team, well other than in few cases. But that's why we have pretty good still. We are at the top now. Other teams have aspirations too though. We should stop being so elitist and be more humble for a change. We could blow up their whole preseason and league with these purchases.
The ones at fault for this situation are Bartomeu and that rat Neymar and his father. Not other clubs asking for stupid money.